My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded “So we’ve been told.” She looks at me like I’m crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) “I’ve not seen any evidence of that.”
“Because they’re such a closed country!”
“Which means you have no evidence to your point either?”
“Well, missionaries… anyway!”
my parents’ generation grew up hearing some variation of “finish your dinner, because there are starving children in China” and they can’t really let go of when they were kids and it was one of the poorest countries in the world